Militantropos, a concept that defines a person who has entered a state of war, accepting it as their only way of existing.
This year, FIDOCS dedicates a section to contemporary Ukrainian cinema. In partnership with Docudays UA, a leading festival that, amidst the war, brings together a community of filmmakers, activists, and audiences in Kyiv to explore cinema's potential to represent violence, injustice, and pain, but also the forms and gestures of survival, we present three recently produced films that will be screened for the first time in Chile. These films confront the experience of a country under a state of emergency. They are works that interrogate archives, testimonies, and the staging of reality to consider what remains of humanity when it often seems that little of it remains.
Danilo Petrovich, FIDOCS 29 programmer
Alina Gorlova, Yelizaveta Smith, and Simon Mozgovyi are three Ukrainian filmmakers who have garnered international acclaim for their work. Their films include 'School Number 3' (2017), 'The Winter Garden's Tale' (2018), and 'This Rain Will Never Stop' (2020). Their most recent documentary, 'Militantropos' (2025), premiered at the Cannes Film Festival's Filmmakers' Fortnight.